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Jul 17, 2015	ARC Ref 75 vs. Ref 75 SE I just now remembered another tactic ARC has employed that I find most objectionable---last one, I promise!When the LS-2Mk.2 was being discontinued, ARC shipped their remaining inventory to select dealers at a discount, who then also sold them dis...
Jul 17, 2015	ARC Ref 75 vs. Ref 75 SE There's nothing mysterious about Tom. He's been the tech at Brooks Berdan Ltd. for ages. He's in the shop on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The rest of the week he's employed at one of the TV studios in L.A.---yes, he's a professional engineer. Does he...
Jul 16, 2015	How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre I've seen no mention of "roller bearings" as promoted by recording engineer Barry Diament. I'm new to Audiogon---were they at one time in fashion and have now fallen out? They provide lateral isolation while maintaining vertical coupling. And isn'...
Jul 16, 2015	Who is your overall favorite guitarist? Just yesterday I learned that Bill Pitcock IV died of Cancer back in 2011 at age 58. He was the guitarist in The Dwight Twilley Band, and played the great flurry-of-notes break in the middle of "I'm on Fire". Give it a listen---I'll guarantee you'...
Jul 16, 2015	wired magazine and Tom Port Yeah, weird to see those kind of components in a system used to evaluate the sound of LP's. He's obviously never heard a high performance system. I should have had him over to hear the Quad ESL/ARC/VPI-Rega-Grado rig I had when he was down the str...
Jul 16, 2015	Johnny Winter I just learned yesterday that Bill Pitcock IV died of Cancer back in 2011. He was the guitarist in the Dwight Twilley Band, and played that great flurry-of-notes break in the middle of "I'm on Fire". You smokers hear this all the time, but.....Bil...
Jul 16, 2015	looking at upgrading my tonearm from a triplanar Geoffrey Owens, the designer of the Helius arms, states that how an arm handles the mechanical energy created by the cartridge is his number one priority in designing an arm! Further, that the bearing assembly should optimally transfer that energy...
Jul 16, 2015	Who is your overall favorite guitarist? You're spot on Marty. There's the story about Sinatra introducing a song during a live show, calling it one of the greatest love songs ever written, attributing "Something" to L & M. Because it's a Beatles song he naturally assumed they wrote ...
Jul 16, 2015	wired magazine and Tom Port In the late 80's Tom's apartment and mine were a couple of blocks apart, his very near the corner of Ventura Blvd. (as immortalized by Tom Petty in his song "Free Falling") and Van Nuys Blvd. It was a great neighborhood---locals like Johnny Ramone...
Jul 16, 2015	Who is your overall favorite guitarist? Rarely mentioned, or even thought of (because of our focus on technique rather than musicality?), is George Harrison. His song parts are exquisite, as are some of his solos. A particular favorite of mine is that in "Nowhere Man"---very simple, pre...
Jul 16, 2015	ARC Ref 75 vs. Ref 75 SE Bifwynne, having an ARC repair tech nearby does make ownership of their power amps more reasonable. Imagine having to ship a heavy power amp to Minnesota every time a tube blows! In his writings on amp design and building-in reliability, Roger Mod...
Jul 16, 2015	Some Musical Truths Mine were offered deadly seriously.
Jul 15, 2015	ARC Ref 75 vs. Ref 75 SE I wondered why there were always so many ARC power amps on the trade-in shelves at Brooks Berdan Ltd. Sure, he was a VTL, Jadis, and Mac dealer, so there would be trade-ins, but why so many ARC? Brooks' tech Tom told me he was constantly repairing...
Jul 15, 2015	Do Countries Have a "House" Sound Also to the nature of the listening rooms endemic to the country of origin. British listening rooms are often small and of brick construct, hence small bass-shy mini-monitors (the room structure does not suffer much bass loss, unlike U.S.A. sheetr...
Jul 15, 2015	ARC Ref 75 vs. Ref 75 SE Do you ever get the feeling that ARC deliberately leaves out the circuit refinements that they end up offering for each of their models a year or two or three after each new model is introduced? As a cynical way to create business in between truly...